Night curfew imposed in Ludhiana

Tribune News Service
Ludhiana, March 11

In view of the increasing Covid cases, the District Magistrate Varinder Kumar Sharma has imposed night curfew in Ludhiana district from March 12.

The curfew will be in place from the night of March 12, effective from 11 pm to 5 am till further orders, the DM ordered.

The curfew was imposed after the daily new Covid cases quadrupled during the past week.

However, the police and Army personnel on duty, government employees on duty, essential services, medical emergency and any other emergency related to the safety of the public/property, would be exempt from the purview of the curfew. Further, inter-district and inter-state movement on highways passing through the district will also be exempted from the order.

Meanwhile, two patients lost their life, while 152 tested positive for Covid in the district today.

The total number of positive cases in the district has now reached 28,323, while the death toll has gone up to 1,046.

Those who tested positive today included four teachers and four students from different institutes. Two healthcare workers also tested positive on Thursday.

Today, one teacher from DAV Public School, BRS Nagar, one from Shivalik Doon School, Partap Nagar, one from GSSS, Bhundari, and one from GM School, Kot Mangal, besides three students from GSSS, Nurpur Bet, and one from Government Multipurpose School tested positive.

Those who lost their lives today were a 73-year-old man from Khanna and a 65-year-old woman from Haibowal Kalan.

The total active cases in the district today were 915, while 317 were home quarantined. The patients on ventilator support were 10, out of which seven belonged to Ludhiana district and three to other districts.

Civil Surgeon Dr Sukhjeevan Kakkar, said whenever the District Administration and the Health Department Ludhiana find out about any positive or suspected Covid-19 person, his/her samples are immediately sent for testing.

Today, 4,329 samples were collected from the district, the while reports of 1,349 were awaited and likely to arrive shortly.